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Then it's great. A year ago I couldn't get any AI to draw a simple company logo in SVG or even convert from raster. No doubt the Pelicans put pressure on the labs to fix the awful SVG situation. Now I can even make a decent Peli in 3D.

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Ah –– Delicious. What can I help you with today? Would you like me to help you find a new car? I can book a test drive of the new Mercedes C class at Prestige Motors 4pm tomorrow.

That's a valid reason to use them and very pragmatic of Kagi. Sometimes jurisdiction A wants to hide something but it's on jurisdiction B's search results. If I were a Kagi subscriber I wouldn't want my search degraded because of a vocal minority.

All I read is that the US govt signs on off US export. I'd be surprised if there was not pressure on FAA to lower the bar.

If there is a cartel it's at the Visa & Mastercard layer surely.

When you're running from a bear on a hiking trip you just have to be faster than your friend. So just set your cooldown slightly longer than everyone else's cooldowns. The cooldown will give security researchers some time to scan the packages so it's still good.

That seems like cute libertarian nonsense. The key word is choice. People have less free will than you think. Every time a teen goes to insta/facebook/tiktok etc they are an individual up against a huge corporation of thousands of people and ML whose job it is to hijack their dopamine circuit. Usage of these apps decreases attention span which effectively means other activities become boring so the users experience a withdrawal symptom like a drug addict.

And it doesn't just affect them. I think most of us would rather live in a society where 50% of the population isn't brain-rotted.

Perceived safety is exactly what I meant. It's a marketing problem.

I think most people get that non-car forms of transport is denser. The two main issues that stop people using it are:

1) Time: Taking a trip involving public transport is slower than a car. This is fixable in urban areas with some dedicated paths, modal filters, and very frequent schedules and that kind of thing but this takes up front resources.

2) Safety: It's not safe. Too much antisocial behaviour on public transport. Nobody wants to sit near loud or smelly people. In the worst case people get assaulted. Cyclists are more likely to get seriously hurt in a crash or have their vehicle stolen than cars. It's fixable but policing takes effort.

3) The demand paradox: "See public transport and bikes are unpopular" say the decision makers and don't put in the resources. The thing is the infra needs to be near 100% built for people to want to use it. It's no good if your cycle commute is 80% dedicated bike paths but 20% of it is riding next to trucks and parked cars opening their doors as most people would rather take a car. It's also no good if the trains run every 30mins, so on average your trip is 15min delayed. The politician would think "why would I double it if the trains are already under-utilised" but does not understand latent demand.

Didn't they move to escape that world?

Now imagine thousands of these flying around in low earth orbit.

Awesome work. I'd love to see you add something like kusto query language or pql. The autocomple on kusto, (which can be embedded into web apps) is really amazing.

I'd recommend they substitute him for a well known, uncontroversial figure like Klaus Schwab.

On the other hand it's got to be better than the shit busy overworked parents show their kids from YouTube or whatever.

Good instinct — this is exactly the kind of issue we should keep an eye on.

Just in case Anthropic are looking for some more members that are a good cultural fit I found this list:

Genie Energy's Strategic advisory board is composed of: Dick Cheney since 2009 (former vice president of the United States),[3] Rupert Murdoch (media mogul and chairman of News Corp), James Woolsey (former CIA director), Larry Summers (former head of the US Treasury), Michael Steinhardt, Jacob Rothschild,[4][5] and Mary Landrieu, former United States Senator from Louisiana.

Last I checked researchers were trying to evolve bees to be mite resistant. Is this something you've come across?

I leave the wolf spiders as they don't make webs.

Should I pick a model a) run by a lying crypto bro once obsessed with scanning eyeballs b) that costs too much and resulted bombing innocent kids c) that is cheap but ultimately owned by re-education camp operators d) something else

2024: Some walkie talkies have explosive devices inside them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_electronic_device...

2025: Some solar inverters have backdoors to inject chaos into the grid. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/ghost-...

2026: Robot dogs used by the police have a phone home connection that hides itself when it detects someone is observing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI&t=39s Yarbo lawn mowers found with backdoor: https://www.theverge.com/tech/928289/yarbo-remove-robot-lawn...

3 - 3.5x here. I'm very happy with that though.

It's more aero :)

"...Deere will now be required to make diagnostic and repair tools available to equipment owners and independent repair shops..."

This is only the tip of the iceberg. They make the parts deliberately proprietary to prevent competition. The classic example is curved cabin windows instead of flat commodity glass.

Laissez-faire capitalism is efficient at extraction not productivity.

Exactly. And don't forget complaining on the internet. But algorithms will ensure few will see it.

I find my Nissan Leaf similar. The A-pillars are so thick to keep me safe but I can't see pedestrians very well. So now I have to move my head around like a party parrot. Then the regen brake sort of has a dead spot where I feel pressure on my foot but it doesn't actually brake making it hard to stop quickly and smoothly. On a purely hydraulic brake what you feel is what you get. Then the camera doesn't see people as well as it sees bigger cars. I've nearly hit some people because of these factors.

Sometimes I really need it accelerate hard so I can get into traffic but the software decides too close to the car in front so it cuts the power when I need it most.

A lot of these safety features are throwing the baby out with the bath water.

My Nissan does check both hands are contacting the steering wheel making lane centering basically useless if I want to do anything with one hand like adjust my glasses, change the audio etc.

Thanks. The video was interesting.

With such cheap costs every city should be sequencing dog turds and sending out big fines. The pay back would be very quick.

It seems really odd to have a Netflix consumption model for games. Generally people want to play a few favourite games for a long time and get very skilled at them. You just don't need to churn through content like movies.

98% of NEW EVs. But the total market share of the fleet is about 1/3. Impressive. If EV share is 90% in a decade I wonder if Norway will see fuel stations being torn down.